 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
If, then, approval is to be used in defining moral obligation, we shall have to decide whose approval. Three possible answers suggest themselves: first, that of constituted authority; second, that of my conscience; third, that of the agent’s conscience. Constituted authority will not do, since it is possible for it to command what is wrong, and my conscience will not do, since I have clearly no right to declare myself a moral dictator. It remains to examine the third view, that what a man ought to do is what his own conscience approves.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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